PRESS PIGSKIN PROGNOSTICATORS
Coeur d'Alene Press | UPDATED 6 years, 11 months AGO
On Eve of upsets,
new leader arises
By MIKE PATRICK
PPP Commissioner
There sat Eve Knudtsen with her husband, Wayne Cofield, in the third row, front and center, Saturday night at North Idaho College for a once-in-a-lifetime performance of Garrison Keillor.
Eve wanted to talk football.
“Those were great days,” the Knudtsen Chevrolet co-owner crowed, harkening back to her glorious Press Pigskin Prognosticators’ season of 2016-2017. The Commissioner could be mistaken, but he believes he saw a tear trembling in Eve’s eye.
In fairness, Eve was one of the worst smack-talkers in PPP history. “She’s too damned nice,” The League’s secret personnel files indicate. Nor was she the most astute prognosticator this side of Soldier Field. Playing for Special Needs Recreation, Eve finished the season in sixth place, middle of the pack, 173-92-2.
But boy, did this girl get into the games.
“I miss all the camaraderie for a good cause,” she lamented Saturday night. (The League’s secret personnel files will not show that the Commissioner was rebuked when he hinted that Eve might play again if, say, the Commissioner would soon be seen driving a brand new complimentary Chevrolet, which he would like even more than free pizza.)
But that was then, this is now and let’s talk about pizza.
That’s pizza as in Jared Staples.
At 25-6-1, Staples is enjoying a two-pepperoni lead over the second-place prognosticator, Suzanna Spencer of STCU. Owner of Papa Murphy’s, Staples is playing for Open Arms Real Choices Clinic.
Spencer has put together two good weeks to go 23-8-1, generating excitement in the produce section of Post Falls Food Bank, her nonprofit.
While the 11 all-star Press Pigskin Prognosticators are putting their personal pride and pigskin pickin’ prowess firmly on the line, keep in mind, fans, that they’re really doing this for the local nonprofits each has selected. When the dust finally clears after Super Bowl LIV, the best prognosticators will win handsome Press advertising packages for their nonprofits. The League, which never exaggerates, estimates the value of these ad packages at $4.7 trillion.
To see how the PPP team fared in Week 2, how wisely or ridiculously they’re guessing in Week 3, and most importantly, which outstanding local nonprofits they’re playing for, see today’s Sports section.